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From: E.J. Zufelt
Date: Mar 8, 2010 7:18AM

Good morning Steven,

In your experience is this well supported by AT / browsers that support ARIA role=application?

Thanks,
Everett Zufelt
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On 2010-03-08, at 8:09 AM, Steven Faulkner wrote:

> hi Everett,
>
> use role="document"
>
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/aria/roles#document
>
> regards
> Stevef
>
> On 8 March 2010 13:00, E.J. Zufelt < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> Good morning,
>>
>> I'm wondering if there is a best practice for how to present document
>> information within an ARIA application region? What I mean by this is if
>> you have an ARIA application, but have a text pane within the document that
>> has a large amount of text for the user to read, is there a way to set a
>> role on this text that will disengage application mode for AT that supports
>> an application role?
>>
>> I'm looking for the correct, best practice, answer, and also the practical
>> real world, it actually works, answer as well.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Everett Zufelt
>> http://zufelt.ca
>>
>> Follow me on Twitter
>> http://twitter.com/ezufelt
>>
>> View my LinkedIn Profile
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt
>>
>>
>>
>>